Mineral Rainbow

In this lesson, students will practice making and sharing observations of different minerals, classify and sort minerals, and create their own rainbow inspired by colors and textures found in nature!

Categories

Age Group: Toddler, Preschool
ELOF Domain: Cognition
Resource Format: Video
Language: English
Smithsonian Museum: National Museum of Natural History
Topic: Color
A display of minerals arranged by color to create a rainbow effect.

Part of the Following Programs

Two artistic characters stand next to each other. The first is a man wearing a bright blue shirt and holding a guitar. The second is a pink jackalope puppet with a dark blue shirt and dark pink glasses. They are surrounded by four animal cutouts including a green python, a yellow frog, a blue frog, and a green and white striped iguana.

Colorful Creatures

What reptiles and amphibians are colorful? How do these animals use these colors to help them?

Content Unit :

Color

Featured Creature :

Corn snake; Fiji island iguana

Smithsonian Partners :

National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of American History, National Museum of Asian Art, National Postal Museum, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Gardens

ELOF Standards :

IT-C 10; P-SCI-1; P-SCI-2; P-SCI-3